Portable bed



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J. M. STROUT.

PORTABLE BED.

No. 363,773. Patented May 24, 1887.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE JOSEPH M. STROUT, OF PORTLAND, MAINE.

PORTABLE BED.

'iPEC'IPICz-LTION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 363,773, dated May 24, 1887.

Application filed Jannaryl8,1887. Serial No. $124,690.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JosEPH M. STRoUT, of

Portland, in the county of Cumberland and State of Maine, have invented a new and 1111 proved Portable Bed, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description. The object of my inventionis to provide a new and improved portable bed which can be easily folded up, and is simple and durable in construction.

The invention consists in the construction and arrangement of various parts and details l myimprovement 011 the line 3 9 of Fig. 1. Fig.

5 is an elevation of one of the bed-posts. Fig. 6 is an enlarged side elevation of the head-rest support.

The portable bed A is provided with the four solid posts B, each having alower pointed part, B, a center part, B and a reduced top rod or bar, 13 The part B of each post is provided with screw-eyes B", to which are secured the lowerside and end ropes, 0, each provided withasnaphook, G, on each end, which hooks are fastened on the said respective screw-eyes 13*. The head and foot posts B are also connected with each other by the stay-rods D, each made of two rods D and D held together in the middle by the hollow sleeve D receiving the reduced inner ends of the, said rods D and D The outer ends of the rods fit into corresponding apertures in the said post parts 13", and are each provided with a shoulder, D, resting against the inner side of the part B as shown in Fig. 2.

The head-posts B are united with each other by the removable stay E, over which slips the welt formed on one end of the canvas mattress F, which passes at its other end around the roller or drum G, mounted in suitable bean ings in the foot-posts. The roller G is pro- (No model.)

vided at each foot-post with a ratchet-wheel, H, engaging a pawl, H, pivoted on the respectiv'e foot-post. One end of the roller G projects at the side of its respective foot-post, and is adapted on this outer end to receive a crank arm, G, by which the roller G can be turned and the mattress wound up on the said drum and thereby stretched.

The foot and head pieces I each consist of a canvas strip, 1, stretched from one foot or head post to the other, and each is provided on each end with a welt fitting over the reduced part B of the posts B.

The head-rest J consists of the angular springwires J, each having the spring-loops J and the loop J on one end fitting over the reduced part B of the post 13. The other end of the spring-wire J is reduced to fit into an aperture in the side rod, D. A canvas strip, J, is stretched from one spring-wire to the other, and is held on the same by a welt on each end of the canvas strip fitting over the horizontal portion of the springwires J.

It will be seen that the several parts can be easily and quickly attached to or detached from each other, so that the parts can be packed up into a small bundle for transportation.

The bed, as represented in Figs. 1, 2, and 4, can be taken apart by first uuhooking the snaphooks G from the eyes 13* and then removing the head and foot pieces I by lifting the canvas strips 1 off the reduced part of the posts B. The head-rest J is then removed by lifting the reduced ends of the spring-wires J out of the stays D. The head and foot posts are then moved apart, so that the roller G and the rod E are disengaged from the posts, and the canvas mattress F, with all the detached posts, can be rolled up around the roller G.

. The stays Dare then easily removed from the posts B and taken apart by disengaging the reduced ends of the rods D and D from the sleeves D, as shown in Fig. 3. All the parts .can be conveniently rolled within the mattress posts together above said bar, substantially as herein shown and described.

2. In aportablc bed, the combination, with the head-posts B, having reduced upper ends and provided with the eyes B, and the connecting-bar E, of the canvas strip I, having loops in its ends for receiving the reduced ends of the posts, and the ropes O, secured to the eyes B of the posts, substantially as herein shown and described.

3. In a portable bed, the posts 13, each pro vided with screweyes B and the stay-rods D, in combination with the ropes O and the snap hooks 0, attached to the said ropes O, engaging the said screw-eyes 13, substantially as shown and described.

4. In a portable bed, the combination of the posts B, having reduced upper ends and provided with eyes 13*, the rods E, connecting the head-posts, the roller G, connecting the footto the eyes, and the canvas strips I, having loops in their ends to receive the reduced up per ends of the posts, substantially as herein shown and described.

5. In a portable bcd,-the combination, with the headpost 13, having reduced upper ends, and the apertured stay-rods, of the angular spring-wires J, having loops J to receive the reduced upper ends of the posts, and their other ends reduced and fitting in the apertures of the stay-rods, and the canvas strip J secured to the said spring-wires, substantially as herein shown and described.

JOSEPH M. STROUI.

\Vitnessos:

HENRY B. GLEAVES, STEPHEN O. PERRY.

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